It's beginning to look a lot like February

A hint of spring in the air today with the melting snow. Not entirely melted, it is, after all, February in Michigan, but I can see a couple of patches of grass in the yard.

In the past few days, I’ve received a few gardening and flower catalogs in the near quarter ton of daily mail the post office sends along for me. I’ve been flipping through pages of beautiful roses and dahlias and it occurs to me that these freaking flowers have been air brushed of all blemishes and lit in ways meant to seduce me into believing this is just how said freaking flowers would look in my own garden. HA! They can’t fool me. Then I come to another realization. I want them to fool me. I want to believe as I sit here on a day when I also believe spring might be in the future that these flowers could be mine. Such are the dreams in February.

The reality is that the weather forecast is for at least 6" of snow starting tomorrow morning. Ah, February in Michigan.